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IT’S A POOLS PARTY AS MARINERS SINK UNITED

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
18 October 2026

By Paul Fraser

HARTLPEOOL U 0
MARINE 2
JACK DOYLE and James Potter struck in the second half for Marine to sink Hartlepool United and leave proud boss Bobby Grant purring.
Pools, sitting a league above in the National League, have now failed to reach the first round of the FA Cup for the fourth year in a row.
But that doesn’t matter one bit to their National League North counterparts, who can now dream of a repeat of 2020-21 when they faced Tottenham in round three.
STAR MAN: Finlay Sinclair-Smith (Marine) ENTERTAINMENT: ★★★★★
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